From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 15:59:45 GMT
Subject: Re: git add without whitespace
Message-ID: <87pos2tdzi.fsf@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqlh2r8ixu.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> $ git diff -U0 -w --no-color | git apply --cached --ignore-whitespace
>> --unidiff-zero
>>
>> This command explicitly leaves out context because it can sometimes
>> cause the patch to fail to apply, I think due to whitespace being in
>> it, but I'm not completely sure myself.
>
> I have had this in my ~/.gitconfig for a long time.
>
> [alias]
> 	wsadd = "!sh -c 'git diff -- \"$@\" | git apply --cached --whitespace=fix;\
> 		git co -- ${1-.} \"$@\"' -"

Very useful, thanks for sharing!

I wonder which other gems are in your .gitconfig, is it public?

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